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00:00Same kind of thing, I think, for the Canes tomorrow, having to go to Raymond James and
00:07deal with the South Florida Bulls.
00:09They gave Alabama a game for three quarters and then ran out of steam and got rolled a
00:14little bit by the tide, but they were in that game.
00:18Do you think they'll be in the game with Miami and destroy their high ranking and their big
00:23season and their big plans?
00:25You know, everybody's got Miami etched into the playoff.
00:29I've been suffering for 24 years with them.
00:32I'm not buying in yet that they're going to win a national championship.
00:35I think they got a problem Saturday.
00:37Well, they're playing a good team.
00:39South Florida is not your typical G5 type of team.
00:43They've got a lot of talent.
00:44If you watch them against Alabama for three and a half quarters, they look talent-wise
00:48about even up with it.
00:50But let me tell you something.
00:51If Cam Ward is playing, Miami is winning the football game.
00:54Will they keep it close for a while?
00:56Very well could.
00:57I don't believe they can hang with Cam Ward and that football team.
01:00I think he's the most explosive, exciting quarterback to emerge in the country this
01:04year.
01:05And to me, Miami is now the favorite in the ACC.
01:07And so until I've watched him every game, and I'm a huge fan.
01:11And believe me, I'm a huge Kane fan myself, watching them play and how they have been
01:15playing.
01:16And when they're a great football team, it's just better for college football.
01:20And so I think they're going to beat USF, but USF, and I don't know why they're playing
01:24in Raymond James.
01:25Obviously, you pay those games out and you play those at home, but they've got to play
01:29that game at Raymond James against a good team.
01:31You're right.
01:32It may be closed for a while, but Cam Ward leads him too much offense and they pull away.
01:37When you were a kid and your dad was facing Miami and that game every year, where were
01:46you mentally?
01:47Were you scared of your dad and had to root for Florida State or you wouldn't be fed as
01:53a child?
01:54Or did you ever appreciate the convicts down the street?
01:59Now listen, when my dad went to Florida State, I was only three years behind him.
02:05I was a graduate assistant at Florida State in 1979 and 80.
02:09And I understood how intense that game was all the way back to Howard Schnellenberger
02:14and all the great coaches that coached there and built that program up.
02:19That was as much a part of Florida State's history as it was Miami's history.
02:22But let me make you feel better.
02:24All I got to say is wide right.
02:26That cost my dad about three and a half championships, Miami, cost him about too many wide rights.
02:32Respectfully, your father just turned in his grave.
02:34He's not having any of this conversation right now.
02:37I got to tell you, it blows my mind as we all get older, you and me both, right?
02:44Like you are starting to really look like your old man to me.
02:47I haven't seen you in a few years.
02:49But like Christ, when you came on the set today, I thought I was talking to your dad.
02:54Respectfully.
02:55Well, that's the only, my mentor was my father.
02:58I trained under him.
03:00I imitated him in my play calling.
03:02And I got hot for trying to do what he did.
03:05We got very, very good at Auburn.
03:06We won our first 20 straight games at Auburn when I went there as a young coach.
03:11But I kind of got that TV bug.
03:13I did Auburn, then ABC came calling.
03:15And if you recall about 1999, I spent 10 years with John Saunders in New York and enjoyed that a lot.
03:22But coaching is what I love.
03:23It's been my passion.
03:25And now talking about football is what I got left.